Re: php.nederland.net / aka mirroring php
| From: | Jim Winstead | Date: | Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:42:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php.nederland.net / aka mirroring php | ||
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:39:55AM +0000, Stefen Lars wrote:
> What do you think of this idea??
i don't think it would solve the fundamental problem.
the problem is that using rsync to transfer the current phpweb
repository is extremely ineffecient. it requires transferring 1.6MB of
data just to find out if any actual file data has to be transferred. it
takes a considerable amount of time for rsync to just generate this list
(and transfer it, depending on how good of a connection the receiver
has).
while it is related to the amount of data being sent, it isn't really a
bandwidth issue or even a machine-load issue. we're just using rsync in
a brutally ineffecient way.
this is because of the twenty-eight versions of the manual (in pretty
and plain html formats) that consist of nearly three thousand files
each. (and the number of versions will go up when the ar, ro, and other
future translations come online.)
jim